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Lecture 2 - Value and Anti-Value

Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History (audio)

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The Politics of Not Value in a Capitalist Economy

There is a widespread desire to incorporate the hitherto of not value into the regime of capitalist value on production and circulation. The workers can recover that immemurable sense of value that they lost in the original fictional wage labor contract with capital, writes David Frum. To be a producer of value of surplus value within a capitalist mode of production is "not a motive, not a blessing, but a misfortune," he adds.

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